In the letters, Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham wrote, "... from this date forward, you must have no further contact with any of our student-athletes or anyone associated with our intercollegiate athletics program."

The letters also ban the men from UNC athletic facilities.

Georgia sports agent Terry Watson and three men who allegedly facilitated contact for him with Tar Heel football players have been charged with agent-athlete inducement.

Watson faces 14 felony charges for allegedly providing cash, trips and gifts to former UNC football players Marvin Austin, Robert Quinn and Greg Little. The other men – former North Carolina Central University quarterback Michael Johnson, real estate agent Patrick Jones and Willie Barley, of Miami, – are alleged to have served as liaisons for Watson's agency with the players.

The letters, which carry no effective legal weight, serve as a means for the university to distance itself from the men.

In the fall of 2010, as the NCAA was investigating whether Austin, Quinn, Little and others had been the beneficiaries of impermissible benefits while they were student-athletes at UNC, the university issued similar letters to an academic tutor, Jennifer Wiley, and a former football player, Chris Hawkins.

Watson, Johnson, Jones and Barley were all indicted as part of an investigation of sports agents by the North Carolina Secretary of State.

Wiley, under her married name, Jennifer Wiley Thompson, was the first to be indicted as that investigation continues.

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75TarheelNov 20, 2013

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Maybe, the ACC should send all agents letters banning them from contact. Kinda like a blanket policy.

— Posted by lec02572

That is a helluva good idea. But as someone else posted, there is no legitimate enforcement arm of UNC or the NCAA that can keep this from happening at present. Perhaps some creative law clerk could draft a state statute that would accomplish this.

lec02572Nov 20, 2013

Maybe, the ACC should send all agents letters banning them from contact. Kinda like a blanket policy.

genesmith2Nov 20, 2013

I'm a TarHeel, and I think this is wrong. When you recruit an athlete, you commit to them a lifetime of support, or at least that is what Dean Smith did, and he set the example for the Carolina Way. You don't accept their inappropriate behavior, but identify it, have them take responsibility for them by accepting the punishment proscribed, and learn from them. Once they are rehabilitated, then they are welcomed back into the family. They are never &quot;dissociated&quot; from the family, as we are all imperfect. As far as the NCAA is concerned, if they focussed on the kids instead of the money, then they too would want to see rehabilitation instead of selectively enforcing their &quot;laws&quot;. They would take responsibility for the care of injured athletes, especially the paralyzed ones who are discarded to fend for themselves.

modukev4Nov 19, 2013

This is what you get for cooperating with the authorities.

ABCers burning jerseysNov 19, 2013

I'm glad they have banned me from Cameron.

RiddickfieldNov 19, 2013

Wow! that is really pathetic on unc's part. Way to be proactive with your program monitoring guys.

heelsforeverNov 19, 2013

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when unc's around, no one comes close...

— Posted by 903 Hook em banned

Just find a therapist to help you with your embarrassment issues.

903 Hook em bannedNov 19, 2013

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You are joking...right? They have to keep fatz around to keep pj so they can keep up their APR.

— Posted by TTh

yeah, they only ban them after they've been indicted. if they banned them before they'd been indicted, they might spill the beans...

TThNov 19, 2013

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What about banning the couple who rented Hairston those cars?!?!

— Posted by rosemarymcdonald23

You are joking...right? They have to keep fatz around to keep pj so they can keep up their APR.